Okay, so we don’t have another Super Bowl victory to celebrate this year, but we can always celebrate Valentine’s Day. Bring your sweetheart or your best buddy or your down-hearted football fanatic friend to Open Table on Friday, February 9 at the Mattapoisett Congregational Church. The menu is usually a surprise but it’s bound to […] Read more »
As the members of the Mattapoisett Finance Committee gathered on January 31 to begin the fiscal year 2019 budget process with various department heads, the bad taste left behind from the January 24 Old Rochester Regional School Committee meeting lingered. During that meeting, Massachusetts Department of Education Program Manager of Governance and Facilities Program Christine […] Read more »
When 99 percent of a group of sixth graders under age 13 admits to having either a Snapchat or Instagram social media account, which by law requires an app user to be at least 13 years of age, you quickly understand why Katie Greer does what she does. Greer, a nationally recognized digital safety expert […] Read more »
Selectman Steve Gonsalves stormed out of the meeting of the Marion Board of Selectmen on February 6 after a shouting match that escalated after Gonsalves interrupted Town Administrator Paul Dawson’s update on the town’s search for an interim Department of Public Works superintendent after Rob Zora’s December retirement. When Dawson mentioned that current Wastewater Treatment […] Read more »
Not travelling during February vacation? No problem. The Marion Natural History Museum will take you to climb Mt. Everest … or to the bottom of the ocean to visit a whale … or how about a spacewalk or trip to visit Mars. Come visit the museum during our extended open hours (11:00 am – 4:00 […] Read more »
Craig Canning’s farmer’s market he had hoped to establish on Marion Road was officially erased from the Rochester Zoning Board of Appeal’s slate on January 25. Canning, developer of the proposed Rochester Farms, LLC, received his Special Permit from the ZBA last year to proceed with his project, but was halted by two lawsuits filed […] Read more »
The Marion Republican Town Committee will conduct its next monthly meeting on Monday, February 12 at 7:00 pm at the Marion Music Hall, 164 Front Street, Marion. At this February 12 meeting, the Committee will elect five (5) delegates to attend and participate at the Massachusetts Republican Convention in Worcester on April 28. All Marion […] Read more »
Maybe it’s because they are nursing students. Maybe it’s because when these young women see an unmet need in the community, they meet it. Whatever it is that drives them, it is apparent that volunteering comes naturally for four students in the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth nursing program. Madeleine Lee of Mattapoisett is one among […] Read more »
It isn’t as though the deck would be plopped directly onto the ground just 31 feet from the wetlands, which is why the Marion Conservation Commission on January 24 gave a tentative and unofficial OK for a proposed raised deck during an informal discussion with engineer David Davignon. Davignon is representing Jean and Steve McCarthy […] Read more »
Name: Pete Smith Age: 82 (But he made us guess) Lives in: Marion How he got here: Born and raised… Favorite Tri-Town place: “I kinda like this place,” he says gesturing with his hands inside the Sippican Historical Society Museum office at 139 Front Street. “I must. I’ve volunteered here for over twenty years.” What […] Read more »